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Are you talking about a certain guy who openly talks about what he does beyond the gym & diet to have the build he has? If so, I watch because he's really good at explaining technique. Even though I'm not trying to be a bodybuilder. I just want to be strong and not get hurt.

I bought some pizza rolls a couple years ago for nostalgia. They didn't taste anything like I remembered.

Did they change more than the cheese since the 80s and 90s?

I feel like if a YouTuber or podcaster is bringing value to my life, I want them to get money in return.

Everyone (okay not EVERYONE) expects artists to create for free and either work full time in top of that or not eat.

I'd rather a creator choose their paid sponsors and get paid directly, than have to rely on YT or whomever to place religious or political or other bullshit ads and give them a small cut and no say.

I can't afford to join everyone's Patreon and I refuse to give YT my money at all. I don't mind an ad for Factor meals or the 'stress relief' massager. I can just fast forward if I'm not in the mood.

Pretty sure this was a Family Guy episode

Okay, I'm 50+ and hate talk radio, general chit chat vlogging stuff.

But I now listen to two guys talk about anime because I got into it during lockdowns. No one my age wants to watch/ talk about it. I feel very "hello, fellow kids" if I try to find current fans.

So I listen to these guys discuss the things I've been thinking about. The story, the artwork, whatever. It scratches that itch and I'm not bothering anyone.

They sometimes discuss their lives. But it's mainly anime chit-chat. And I can skip ahead on the ones I don't watch.

When he sends everyone home, they just aren't doing committees and votes?

Can't they stay and still do things that help their districts or prep for when they are back in session? They can still work. They are still getting paid.

In my defense. I pee fast, the bathroom is close, I can hear the movie while I wash my hands.

If I pause it, my husband will manage to wander off in the 2 minutes I was gone to fix a snack or something.

Then missing 2 minutes becomes a 20 minute side quest.

You know what, it's 10am on a Sunday. Fuck it, I'm going to eat some ice cream for second breakfast.

I would also like to add, that it's sometimes almost impossible to have a 2nd part time job because one or both are not regular schedules. People won't know when they are working until the week before. If both jobs do this you will end up with scheduling conflicts.

Like it would be better if you were scheduled the same 3 or 4 days a week and had the rest of the week off.

At least then you could either chill or find other activities. But they want you at their mercy and constantly in crisis.

Like you said, All Obamacare did from a company standpoint was make people no longer reliant on their employer for healthcare. So it has no bearing on 25 hr work weeks. Although with subsidies going away, a lot of people are becoming uninsured again.

FMLA was 1993, so Clinton Required lunch breaks, etc are state laws, so not Obama OT pay and some other federal protections were pre-WW2

I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.

For instance, Get Out wouldn't have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.

Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it's Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)

Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?

The follow-up question becomes: is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers or is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?

I'm using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I'm using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.

I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.

But I'm also digging it. Especially since it's not Weyland, I've been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies

Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen

I think they mean all his characters are bombastic, loud, and kind of obnoxious. But somehow still different, so you'd still be able to immediately identify each character.

Like for me, Jack Black is Jack Black. A short clip of several of his characters and I'm not sure I'd know which is which.

But this guy, Jackie Daytona the human, I'd spot in a second. Completely different guy from Lazlo the vampire.